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Summary: Great book, one of the best books ever written
Review: Fantasic book about a community in some place and time other than here and now. About the life in a community with no pain or suffering yet with no emotions no love. Lois Lowry is a genius, although much of her book contains ideas from other books (1984, the bible) she is great storyteller. Anyway isn't that what a genius is, someone who takes something old and makes something new. Heart wrenching tale. The only pain I get from this book is I have heard that Lois Lowry has signed movie rights over for it and I do not believe any good will come of that.
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Summary: Absoloutely Marvelous!!!!!!
Review: Fantastic. The book really makes you think about a "perfect" society would be like, and how important things like choices and strong feelings, like love and fear and grief are. Lois Lowry makes the charecters real and the setting chilling
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Summary: By Hamzah Khalaf You Won't Believe How Good This Book Is.
Review: First of all I must say this was the best book I've ever read in my life! Like how she leaves it an open ending is really cool because you try to guess what it is. What I'm trying to say is that this no ordinary book, this book is about a 12- year old boy that lives in a society that has no flaws,feelings or love and is perfect, but the people don't know that it has many flaws in it the people don't know there are flaws because their feelings where washed away fro m their memories so it becomes a perfect society. Jonas, is chosen to become the Receiver of Memory and has to keep all the good and bad memories which are given to him from the giver from the people so it become a perfect community. This book might have to do with a death but it becomes a cool mystery as it goes to the end, so if you like mystery books I guarantee you the you will like this book.
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Summary: Society managemant
Review: First of all, I am sorry about my poor English and writing skills.
Jonas who will become 12 years old is in a community. In there, everything is under control and everything is decided by rule. However, nobody has doubt on the rule. Every person is accepted a rule in community. For example, people cannot choose their spouse by themselves. Every family units have 4 member, such as father, mother, son, and daughter. There is a not cleavage in community between rich and poor. When children become 12 years old, every child will receive assignment (occupation) from the elders. So, every child must follow the assignment. While Jonas received special assignment,
and became the Receiver who receices memories from Giver. Jonas received a lot of memories which relates with happiness and also sadnessd from Giver. However, the Giver and the Receiver are prohibit to tell something about their duties to the other people. Jonas (Receiver) who is a only 12 years old boy realized that how is the community abnormal. Only giver and Receiver are understanding each other with pain. The doleful Giver and Receiver's decision are more doleful. And, finally, there is a just doleful ending.
This is a good book, recomend to read this book.
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Summary: Really Good!
Review: First off, this was a really good book. Second of all, I would like to get something off my chest. Why does everyone(almost)think that books with anything thougthful, serious, or bad are not appropriate for children? I'll admit that a five year old should not read this book, but what about the kids who are seven or eight and could understand this book? Should they not be able to read it just because of some disturbing things? They are the ones who need to read it so that they can stop the world from becoming that way! Now that I've done that, I'll move on to the book. This is a really great book. The author has created a whole new world, but sort of like ours. This book makes you think about our soceity, and what it has become. It makes you thankful for all the simple things, even pain and the ability to choose a job and be different from other people. There is also one other thing missing from that world. Color. It is all a colorless gray, but no one, except The Giver and The Receiver, knows any different. Get this book!
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Summary: 8th grade
Review: First, I an an eighth grader at deerpath middle school, in lake forest, Il. Our class read this book as a project. I am in the lowest level of L.A.(our district's name for english) and I am not a great writer or reader, but after I got past the first three chapters, I finished this book in a day. This is amazing for me, I am a relativly slow reader, yet this book is so in depth,I found it impossable to but it down (I finished it 10 minutes ago) I have alwys been interstes in si-fi/futeristic books. The giver isnt si-fi at all, but it shows the terrors of communism and blindness in a easy to understand, and hard to out down package.
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Summary: A Brilliant Novel Which Deserves to Be Deciphered
Review: First, in order to enjoy Lois Lowry's "The Giver," you must understand, even if vaguely, the world in which the novel takes place; it is still Earth, but its society is utterly strange--despite the fact that this world is pain-free, no poverty, no illness. This is one of the novel's best qualities: it allows us to see how odd a world with no hardship is, compared to our society.
In "The Giver," Lowry follows Jonas, yet another citizen in this utopian society; here, your entire life, your entire future is planned for you...imagine the strictest yet most peaceful communist, totalitarian government (an oxymoron), combined with Orwell's "1984." Speakers and monitors surround everyone's living center, so "they" can observe whenever the citizens mandatorily discuss their dreams. There is no such thing as birthparents; when you're born (or rather given birth by "birthmothers," which is an official profession) you are assigned to a family. There are not even any cars, everyone rides bicycles.
Jonas' birthday is coming up. Every citizen has the same birthday, and everyone is given a designated gift on each birthday; for instance, when everyone is seven, they get a bike; and when they turn twelve, they are given their job...for life. Jonas is estranged from his friends when he is given the job of Receiver of Memories.
He is tutored by the town's current Receiver, a weak old man only known to us as the Giver. In this experience, Jonas is given a gift that no one else in this society has--the gift of knowing freedom, true freedom. The gift to heal and cope with pain (something Jonas was alienated to), the gift of knowing family, the gift of seeing the world...as it should be.
With this newfound knowledge, Jonas' desire to leave and to find a place where humanism exists, to save someone from this society, continues to haunt him.
"The Giver" is another one of Lois Lowry's crowning acheivements, winner of the 1994 Newberry Medal. This book is not to be looked over and placed into the shelf with no further attention; "The Giver" is brilliant, and is not only to be read, but to be deciphered.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: First, when I read this book, I thought it is very hard even if it is for 6, 8, 10 grade students. Actually I don't know when it is written. But I am sure it criticizes the communism. Who knew communism's last as USSR or eastern European countries. But the auther understood the societies of communism. Their closed society and equal lives, but generation and generation, they can not know the origin community. Why should they work? communism's dream is very ideally. But it prevents diversity and creation of the people. Although human is social animals, communism ignores human's big principal. I don't like such a book because its background and result are very gloomy. But it express the communism very well. It should be ok that you read once or twice.
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Summary: Anybody should read this book
Review: Firstly I want to say that the book gives me a very horrifying impression. The shown sameness seams unbelievable to me. I can't imagine a life like this in the novel 'The Giver'. The novel motivated to think about our own life and that it is not naturally to be an individual. In contrast to the people in the community we can make our own decisions and can choose for example our own job. Furthermore we can live where or with which person we want. Finally I can say that I won't live in a community like the one shown in the novel. But those people in the novel didn't know anything else. I want to mention that anybody should read this book.
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Summary: I am right now reading THE GIVER for school
Review: For 6th grade english class I have to read THE GIVER. I am only up to chapter 2 so I'm not that familiar with the book. I have a question for Lois Lowry. Why did you choose to capitilize PILOT and SEVENS, EIGHTS, ELEVENS... and so on? That is really wierd. I don't get it. So far I like the book but there is a lot of hard vocabulary. I hope people like me will read THE GIVER and enjoy it as much as I do.
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